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Objective: Blue code systems (BCS) are communication systems that ensure the most rapid and effective resuscitation when a patient is in respiratory or cardiac arrest. A hospital employee faced with the situation of a cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) starts the system by dialing 6666 from any phone in the hospital. We created a five-person team that includes a doctor, nurse, anesthesia technician, stretcher officer and security guard. The purpose of this study is to share our experiences in initiating the use of the BCS in our hospital. Materials and Methods:In our hospital, the records of calls that were made by Callvision BCS were analyzed retrospectively from May 2010 to the end of January 2011.Results: A total of 474 calls were made using the blue code system. Of those calls, 402 (84.5%) were determined to be inappropriate calls. The remaining 72 calls were responded to. Of the 72 patients who were treated, 21 were discharged after they were hospitalized in the service or intensive care unit, 45 cases resulted in exitus, and 5 cases were referred to the Ataturk University faculty of medicine. Conclusion:The BCS has achieved its goal. The discharge rate of 29.5% that we achieved is a successful result.

The factors associated with hypocalcaemia were defined to be "gender, preoperative diagnosis, parathyroid gland injury, nodule size and vitamin D deficiency", it is a multifactorial problem and it would not be proper to define a few etiological factors.

Objective: In this study, anticancer effects of mirtazapine on rats were investigated in an adenocarcinoma model induced by N-methyl-N-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) and compared with those of cisplatin. Materials and Methods: For this purpose, 10 mg/kg doses of mirtazapine were administered orally to one group of rats, while 1 mg/kg doses of cisplatin were administered intraperitoneally to another group. At 1 hour after administration, 200 mg/kg doses of MNNG were given orally to both groups. MNNG administration was repeated once every 10 days through 3 months, after which period, gastric tissue was taken and pathologically evaluated. Results: Mirtazapine prevented adenocarcinoma induction by MNNG in rats to a greater extent than cisplatin. Some of the rats receiving cisplatin demonstrated severe dysplasia in gastric samples and others exhibited mild dysplasia. Rats given mirtazapine were not observed to suffer severe dysplasia, only mild dysplasia being observed. Conclusion: For adenocarcinoma induced by MNNG on rats, mirtazapine was determined more effective than cisplatin. In order to make statement about mechanism of anticancer activity of mirtazapine, wider studies are required.

Objective: Gastric cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths. It is mostly seen between the ages of 50-70 years. In our study, we aimed to present our 11 years of experience about surgical treatment of gastric cancer. Method: In our medical faculty hospital between January 2000 and December 2010, a total of 504 patients, who operated with the diagnosis of gastric cancer, were analyzed retrospectively. Morbidity and mortality rate were evaluated according to type of operations and risk factors. Results: 182 of the patients (mean age 62.4 years) were female (36.1%) and 322 (63.9%) were male. The tumor location was antrum in the 202 (40.1%) patients, corpus in the 107 (21.2%) patients, cardia and fundus in the 195 (38.7%) patients. Distal subtotal gastrectomy was done 160 (%31.7) of the patients, total gastrectomy was done 204 (%40.5) of the patients and 140 (%27.8) of the patients were considered to be nonresectable because of reasons such as the liver metastasis, peritoneal dissemination and invasion of adjacent organs. Morbidity was found to be %17.6 (n=89) and early mortality rate was found as %5.5 (n=28), respectively. Conclusion: We found that gastric cancer patients are diagnosed at advanced stage in our region. Especially people who are at risk and have symptoms should be undertaken to screening programs such as endoscopy. In patients with gastric cancer, there is a relationship between advanced age, hypoalbuminemia, and serious co-morbidity with surgical mortality. AnahtarKelimeler: Mide Kanseri, cerrahit tedavi, mortalite.